Dotty Walks On Water
Dotty can't walk because her encephalon tin no longer tell her legs what to do.
By Bob DeMarco
Baca Juga
One of motivations hither is to determine if I tin somehow larn Dotty walking. Well, walking a bit. Like walking on her ain inward the house.
Right now, Dotty can't walk to a greater extent than than a few steps without assistance. And, she tin no longer larn around inward our solid on her own.
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Dotty can't walk because her encephalon tin no longer tell her legs what to do. Her legs are non yet weak, together with she isn't falling.
I receive got been discussing this phenomena for years alongside people inward the Alzheimer's community. Dotty's walking work is non related to weakness inward her legs, hips, or knees. It is non related to balance, although, Dotty does state all the time, she is going to faint. For a piece directly she has been saying, I can't move, together with her feet are stuck to the ground.
I receive got been waiting patiently for a hateful solar daytime when it was warm plenty to position Dotty into the pool, together with a hateful solar daytime where I could larn her on the motion earlier it was also late.
So, yesterday nosotros took off for the puddle around 11:30 AM. I admit, I had some feelings of trepidation because I was non certain if Dotty would last able to larn into the pool.
Oh that Dotty, never ane to disappointed. I rolled her upwards to the puddle together with she made it in.
It is non thus tardily for ane uncomplicated reason. The puddle has this giant border around it. So, y'all genuinely receive got to footstep up, together with thus over, together with and thus downwardly to the get-go footstep inward the pool. Then downwardly a few steps.
Dotty daughter makes it over that get-go giant hump without also much of a problem. Going downwardly the steps was a bigger problem. First, Dotty's encephalon is non helping her much to choice upwards her feet. Second, to Dotty it looks similar it is a ane G 1000 miles downwardly to the adjacent step. She has no existent depth perception when it comes to looking into the water. So she steps downwardly alongside the greatest of trepidation.
Of course, I am assisting, non coaching her all the agency in. You but soap on a lot of positive reinforcement like, "you tin exercise it", "don't worry I receive got a expert travelling pocket on your", "don't worry fifty-fifty if y'all autumn all y'all are going to exercise is autumn inward the H2O together with I won't allow y'all drown".
I don't genuinely state that concluding one, I but wanted to run across if y'all were paying attention.
Once nosotros made it into the water, Dotty was able to walk. After a few trips across the pool, I allow her become on her own. She assist the rope together with walked across.
So Dotty tin even thus walk a bit. We volition continue this upwards if nosotros can, together with maybe, maybe, nosotros volition hand the treadmill a shot somewhere downwardly the road.
By the way, but thus y'all understand, it is non nearly me wanting or needing Dotty to walk. It is nearly finding out if I tin amend Dotty's mightiness a flake thus she tin become snip out her ain mound bar without me having to convey it to her. Stuff similar that.
No, Dotty didn't walk on water. But, she did walk inward the water. She seemed to last enjoying herself. Made me experience pretty expert that is for sure.
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